THE NEW Overwatch Year of the Rooster event is set to start later today and Blizzard have hinted that new changes are coming to PS4 and Xbox One that won’t just involved new skins.

Overwatch Year of the Rooster could contain a few character changes too

The Overwatch Year of the Rooster event is directly tied to bringing new items, emotes and skins to the game, as part of the title’s Chinese New Year celebrations.

The new content will be officially unveiled tomorrow by Blizzard, who also look set to offer a brand new event mode.

There’s usually hundreds of new cosmetic items added following each seasonal event’s launch and fans are likely to find more out about that later today.

Right now, we already know that Blizzard are working on rebalancing a few characters, as well as adding a new feature to Xbox One and PS4.

One fans gave game director Jeff Kaplan a series of requests, which included changing the damage rate connected to Torbjorn and Symmetra’s turrets, as well as offering a way to report players on consoles.